![]() It could be the turtle was cold stunned, where water temperatures are 10 degrees or lower and it causes the animal's heart rate to decrease. Simmons, who hasn't seen the leatherback in Wild Cove, said there are a few reasons why the turtle ended up on the shore in Cape Breton instead of safe in the water. ![]() In 2016, another leatherback turtle was found deceased on the shore in New Victoria. Kurt Simmons, manager of science at Louisbourg Seafoods and president of the Eastern Nova Scotia Marine Stewardship Society, said it isn't common to find leatherback turtles on the shores of Cape Breton.Īs reported in the Cape Breton Post, in 2018 there was a deceased leatherback turtle found frozen in the ice at Bras d'Or Lake. CONTRIBUTED/PATSY CROWDIS - Patsy Crowdis Spencer, his grandmother and great aunt went to see the endangered animal on Wednesday after hearing talk of a leatherback turtle washed ashore after post-tropical storm Fiona. Lochlan Spencer stands next to a deceased leatherback sea turtle on the shore of Wild Cove near Little Lorraine. The Department of Oceans and Fisheries (DFO) said the turtle was either a sub-adult or adult as there are no young leatherbacks found in Atlantic Canada oceans. "It was sad to see something so magnificent gone." "The eyes were gone by this point," she said. "I looked it up when I got home and it is a leatherback, which is endangered."Ĭrowdis posted photos of the turtle to her Facebook page and the Cape Breton Post forwarded these to the Department of Oceans and Fisheries who confirmed it is a leatherback turtle. When they came across the deceased turtle, they didn't know what kind it was.
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